Starting from the
International Year of the Child in 1979, development historian
Maggie Black studies the two movements which have done most to raise
the visibility of children in the public consciousness: the child
survival campaign, the child survival campaign, highlighted by the
1990 World Summit for Children; and the movement for children's
rights, which led to the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child,
now ratified by 191 countries. 'Children First' explores what
brought these two movements such unprecedented success, and asks: Is
this new found
concern for the world's children likely to last? For those
interested in UNICEF and the welfare of the world's
children.